by KarenD | Mar 11, 2020 | Education
Center on the Developing Child; Harvard University The science of child development points to three core principles that can guide what society needs to do to help children and families thrive. These include: Supporting responsive relationships Strengthening...
by KarenD | Mar 10, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Mentoring programs have not always appreciated the vitally important, positive role of caregivers in the success of mentor-youth relationships. In a large, multisite study, researchers found that staff and mentors often viewed mentees’ parents and...
by KarenD | Mar 2, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes In the comedy, Role Models, two self-absorbed salesmen, Danny and Wheeler, are arrested following a road rage incident and elect to perform community service hours over going to jail. They are assigned to work at a mentoring program where Danny...
by KarenD | Feb 11, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Originally posted in 2017 I once took a year’s leave from academia to serve as a match coordinator in a Boston-based mentoring program. One evening I found myself sitting on the edge of a couch in a subsidized apartment conducting an intake with...
by KarenD | Feb 5, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
This isn’t how you pictured your relationship with your mentee turning out. She was supposed to burst out the door of her home with excitement every time you picked her up, hang on your every word, and spend at least half of her time with you laughing and smiling....
by KarenD | Jan 29, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Care for some direct, research-based ideas for connecting with others? I’d recommend a book that distills the essential findings of many studies. Friend and Foe, by Business Professors Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer or Columbia and the...
by KarenD | Jan 22, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
Some days it just seems impossible to wedge one more activity into your schedule. But being a mentor doesn’t necessarily need to become a burden in your life. Being a mentor is about more than going on special outings to movies and amusement parks. It’s about spending...
by KarenD | Jan 6, 2020 | Making Mentoring Work
by Niobe Way, Ed.D., Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at NYU and Author of Deep Secrets Matching boys with caring mentors should be the goal of any mentoring program regardless of the sex of the mentor. My research with Black, Latino, White, and Asian...
